Maria Andrejczyk

Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk (; born 9 March 1996) is a Polish track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is a three-time Olympian and won the silver medal in the javelin throw event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Andrejczyk is also a European Team Championships silver medalist and European Junior Championships gold medalist. Her personal best throw of 71.40 m, set in 2021, is the Polish record and ranks her fourth on the women's world all-time list.

In the 2025 Polish television series The Breslau Murders, she played the role of Stanisława Walasiewicz.

Career Andrejczyk competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. She won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships.

Andrejczyk represented Poland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. On 16 August 2016, she achieved her personal best and a new Polish national record – 67.11 metres – while competing in the qualifying round. She went on to finish fourth in the final, missing out on a bronze medal by just two centimetres.

Soon after the Olympics she underwent an operation on the injured shoulder and lost the entire 2017 season. She returned to competition in June 2018 but could not build a good enough form for the 2018 European Championships in Berlin. The next season marked an improvement as she finished second at the 2019 European Team Championships Super League held on home soil in Bydgoszcz and qualified for the 2019 World Championships in Doha, where, however, she was eliminated in the qualifying round.

In the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Andrejczyk won the silver medal in the women's javelin throw event.

Personal life Andrejczyk is a Roman Catholic.

Since the end of 2018, She has been in a relationship with the Polish trainer Marcin Rosengarten.

In 2018, Andrejczyk was diagnosed with bone cancer which she survived.

Philanthropy Andrejczyk auctioned off her Tokyo Olympic silver medal to help fund the heart surgery of an 8-month-old baby. Żabka, a Polish store chain won the auction and let her keep the medal.

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